I have COPD and my Doctor’s kept telling me that if I kept smoking it was going to kill me. Being me. I told the Doctor so “What you’re saying is that if I stop smoking I’m not going to die?” He replied “Not from cigarettes!”
Funny thing is I don’t care what gets me in the end.
Reason for that is simple you will go when it is time and it won’t matter how healthy you are.
Smoked like a train in my early years, had a collapsed lung do to a coughing fit, kinda told me all I wanted to know at 20 about my lungs, gave up there and then, that was in 1977, the first 40 yrs were the worst.
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LMAO I bet they were. 
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I gave up 17 years ago and planned it with military precision. I cleaned a room and everything in it and that then became a smokeless zone. I went through the house and car the same, all cupboards and drawers emptied of smoking paraphernalia, everything washed and emptied. Then I picked 1 Feb to start, slapped on patches and never looked back. It was the hardest thing I ever did but I was determined I was never going through that again. I saved an absolute fortune and treated myself to weekends away, loads of books and CDs, pamper sessions and new clothes.
Yes I used to smoke as well about 30 a day. I went cold turkey as the saying goes to stop. I had bad cold so smking was a no no anyway and I had not got any. On top of that it was christmas and all the shops were shut so no chance of getting any .
So for 3/4 days I had stopped then I thought to myself if I can stop over those days why not try not to day by day and week by week. So it was an internal fight to kill the urge/need for a cigerette . It must have taken 2/3 years to even stop thinking about having one, worse was when others were smoking around me and offered one. That was over 40 years ago and believe me it was not easy. However if you knew me you would know how stubborn/determined I can be when my mind is made up. Embassy were 37.5p for 20 at the time if my memory is correct